Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-21
PLACER COUNTY EXHIBITS.
A Fine Horticultural and Mineral Dis
play from the Foothills.

PLACER COUNTY EXHIBITS.
A Fine Horticultural and Mineral Dis.
play from the Foothills.
The people of Placer county are always
loyal to its interests in being ready to ex-
hibit to the outside world something of the
varied and wonderful products of this CEN
trail and extremely fertile foothill county
Its resources are second to none in the
State, and its citizens have the energy and
enterprise to develop them and set the re-
suits before the people in most attractive
form. The fine exhibition made by this
county at the last State Fair is now ex-
celled and Justly attracts marked attention
and admiration. The present exhibits are
under charge of ]. F. Madden and B. NJ.
Berry, of Newcastle, and J. J. Morrison, of
LoomiS, and is very attractiyely arranged.
1t is located in the northeast corner of Hor-
ticultural Hail. and does infinite credit to
its locality and people. The territory oc-
cupied by Placer county covers an eleva-
ton of from 90 to 4 200 feet above sea level,
and includes favorable climate and soil
for the successful growth Of nearly every
desirable product for mankind. To prop
erly display this extended and interesting
the county was far from being sufficient,
and the managers of the exhibit have much
remaining in boxes that has not been un-
packed.
There is strip of country along the west
base of the Sierras. at an elevation of from
400 to l, 100 feet that produces in the most
perfect degree of development and in I'M
surpassed quantities, all the fruits of the
temperate and semi-tropical zones. In this
belt, which is becoming known, from its
comparative freedom from blighting frosts,
as the Warm Gold Belt" is located the
Newcastle and Penryn fruit district, and
from which large part of the present dis
plays were obtained, and the credit for
which the county owes the leading people
of that district lasting debt of gratitude.
From Newcastle to Colfax is an extended
rich section, from which very fine collec-
ton Of fruits and mineral specimens are
displayed. The Colfax district maintains
its distinction for excellent grapes, and also
shows other fruits of equal merit
For the region from Colfax to Dutch
Flat and Alta there is display of apples
and pears that need not fear competition
from any other source. The people from
that part of the county have also done ex-
cellent work in collecting and displaying
the fruits, etc, illustrative of the fine pro-
apples and pears from the neighborhood of
Iowa Hill, Michigan Bluff, Bath, and in
fact all the Forest Hill divide. is equally as
good as that from along the line of the
Central Pacific Railroad, but is not so
large. The Mt. Pleasant district is vel
represented by the display of grapes. and
Fosters first premium raisins. Western
Placer's broad and fertile grain fields are
also represented by exhibits of barley,
wheat, oats, etc. Below is a list of the
most notable exhibits:
One of the most noteworthy indices of
climate and growth for this section are the
banana trees of o. w. Hollenbeck, grow
ing at Auburn, and which are represented
by large framed photographs, on exhibition
with the Placer county exhibits. These
trees are now 16t months old, and about II
feet in hight, and flourishing with remark
able vigor and promise. They testify
strongly for the climate of the section.
]. a. Robinson, Newcastle, Is varieties of
choice peaches, prominent among which
Is large collection Of the McDevitt cling
peaches.
P. w. Butler, Penryn, has an excellent
exhibit of peaches, among which are the
Albright cling, the Salway Bilgen's late
October, and Georges late cling
G. t. Adams, Newcastle shows Rose de
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and Emperor grapes, that for size of berry
and delicacy of flavor are unexcelled. Mr..
Adams also exhibits orange cling Brandy
wine, Heath cling, freestone, Georges late
cling and Salway peaches, and Bartlett
pears.
L. Bannon, Penryn, makes an excellent
showing of table grapes, comprising cataw-
ba, muscat, flaming tokay, black Hamburg,
Rose de Peru, Isabella and Mission.
j. B. Whitcomb, Colfax. has the largest
display of grapes in the Placer county ex-
hibit and embraces twenty-six varieties of
the choicest and most desirable classes for
wine and the table use
Il. Booth, Roseville, supplies fine col
lection of dried fruit. He shows dried
pears, apples, plums, figs, seven kinds of
dried peaches, and some mammoth green
ounces.
Mrs. II. E. Parker, Penryn, exhibits a
collection of iellies, jams, preserved fruits
catsup, consisting of IA samples in glass
and having only half dozen of a kind
The variety can be estimated. 1t is one of
the great attractions of Placer's exhibit.
This exhibit, placed in the form of pyra-
mid has been tastefully embellished
by Mrs. Parker, with choice collection of
Placer's citrus and deciduous fruits, con-
sisting of this years growth of oranges,
some of them twelve inches in diameter.
such as Washington naval, Mediterranean
sweet, St. Michael and Florida sweet, etc.,
picked from tees only q years old Also. a
display ofgenuine California dried SMYRNA
figs This latter is an item of the very
greatest importance, and all interested
should examine them, as there seems to
be no doubt but that she mas the true fig of
commerce, and which, if so, will, in time
be worth millions of dollars to our State
John Kaiser, PenrYn, has large collec.
ton of choice wines and brandies, for
which the foothills are becoming so noted.
Mrs. Mary E. Fox Newcastle. has gen.
eral exhibit of superior excellence, and
decorated with bouquets of choice flowers,
pampas plumes, branches. clusters, etc
The exhibit consists of Washington navel
Mediterranean sweet st. Michael, Konah
and Seeding oranges, Sicily lemons, Heath
cling, Georges late cling, McDevitt cling
orange cling, Salway Ward Late Free and
Bilyen's late October peaches, Languedoc
and soft shell almonds, chestnuts, Califor.
MIA and English walnuts, Fellenberg
prunes, Hungarian prunes. silver
prunes and damsen plums. japanese per
simmons, Catawaba, Muscat and Rose dc
Peru grapes. Pacific white and black Cali.
fornia figs, Winter Ne is pears, green olives
on the branch and dried fruits as follows
figs, pears, peeled peaches, French and
Hungarian prunes and apples.
a. Kelly, Auburn, exhibits small